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Football Thread |OT15| About as productive as Tika Taka
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Are they? Napoli didn't give a fuck. Atletico didn't give a fuck. Inter openly said 3rd spot more important. Chelsea are rotating players so clearly the lowest on their priority list.
Spurs, Lazio and Newcastle are taking it seriously. Chelsea are to a certain extent but clearly more important things on their mind. It will be interesting to see their starting 11 for the return leg.
The_Hitcher89
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Spurs, Lazio, Newcastle (even though they're not safe from relegation,) Zenit, Benfica and Lyon all had bigger fish to fry, and all have gone all out in trying to get as far as possible. Its no Champions league, but its an improvement I think
pulga
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It is good for the EL to have high profile teams. Thing is, for me, it says more about how crap those teams have been the last or current season than it speaks of any actual quality in the competition.
The_Hitcher89
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The quality of those teams is essentially irrelevant. They are big teams, in big leagues, with priorites elsewhere, and without squads of 25 equal players. Yet they're giving their all in the pursuit of winning the Europa League.
The quality of a team means fuck all if they can't be arsed to turn up, ala Dortmund in the German Cup. Once they're in it, the best they can do is to try and win it, and that's what they're doing when I don't think anybody necessarily expected them to put so much effort into it. Especially with Newcastle.
132 in all competitions (vs Middlesbrough in the Cup), 685 in the league (vs Villa before Christmas).
His last goal in which he took more than a few touches was against Barca last season I think, but that doesn't really answer your question
I honestly can't remember him scoring a spectacular goal since he left us. The two main factors that contributed to the majority of his goals were his pace and outrageous confidence, and he'll never get the latter back without the former.I admit they are doing admirably even without Klose. Their Petkovic had already beat Spurs (not over two legs) in the CL qualifier the year Tottenham went to the 1/4 finals.
The_Hitcher89
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Agreed, but the winner often qualifies through domestic competition. And if you give it to the other finalist, what if they've already qualified? Give it to one of the semi-finalists? Which one?
Whatever happens, they need to make the overall reward far more lucrative
Phantast2k
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I know Leverkusen didn't give enough fucks since they'd much rather keep up their pace in the league to qualify for CL (directly).
Hanover felt like they could win the whole thing after narrowly losing to Atletico in 11/12 - so they were devastated. While Mönchengladbach was just tugging along because they just aren't stable this time around. Same goes for Stuttgart.
^ yep, though Sturridge's dance is not too bad.
Hanover felt like they could win the whole thing after narrowly losing to Atletico in 11/12 - so they were devastated. While Mönchengladbach was just tugging along because they just aren't stable this time around. Same goes for Stuttgart.
^ yep, though Sturridge's dance is not too bad.
The_Hitcher89
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I think Sturridge is aware of how stupid his dancing is, and I think he's done with it
Zaha is as oblivious to the ridiculousness of his dance as Man Utd fans are to the way Palace have bent them over and shoved Holloway's waxed dome into their lower intestine
Atletico won it last year despite not being in the CL this year. It needs to be winner only that way Inter wouldn't have done what they done today, Napoli wouldn't have done what they did, same with Atletico. It needs to be made worth while compared to what the league offers that way it gets made MUCH more important to try and win it.
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LabouredSubterfuge
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I look forward to ZahALLAH serving some tender Crow next season. Bent over a barrel - he's not played for us yet.
Paprika. Go watch it now. It might get confusing, but its worth it just for the production value alone if you don't like open-ended stories.
They were bloody joke. Can't believe they get to represent Germany at this point.
LabouredSubterfuge
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Any of you fucks watched Utopia?
It's on 4OD (for the UKers), I highly recommend you watch it. I'm normally very critical of UK TV productions but this is very good.
Wiki page here
It's on 4OD (for the UKers), I highly recommend you watch it. I'm normally very critical of UK TV productions but this is very good.
Wiki page here
Think positively about the result: I am in good mood thanks to Basle getting good chances to go through, and you will have the delight to see Hulk and Witsel finally stick their thumbs out of their asses for the return leg.
Sleeplessnights
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Wow, this guy keeps amazing me :lol
Billy Big Bollocks
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I hope the next Chelsea manager doesn't have grand delusions that he can fix Torres, just get rid of him and move on.
YURT YOU CUNT
I've finally got the Platinum Trophy in Metal Gear Rising.
Now off to play Mass Effect 1 for the first time ever. I hear it's the best so I'm hyped as fuck.
It needs to drop to 30 euros before I buy it =P
1>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>2>>>>>>>>>3
I'm a PS3 owner.
At least it came with the shitty ME1 digital comic so I could at least grasp a summary of ME1's plot. Now I get to experience it in full.
Why wasn't Oscar attacking that ball? Torres gave him an absolutely perfect shot if he was attacking. The goalkeeper had already come out and it would have taken an incredible finish to put that past him. He had good vision there IMO, to pull the ball back for that midfielder (I think Oscar).
Oh you fucking master ninja.
Every time I try to Platinum a game, I end up hating it. Which is why I have 0 Platinums in my PS3 cabinet.
Might as well change my PS3 username to Arsenal.
Carbonox too said:
Enjoy! I remember liking it quite a bit.
Cunt gonna cunt I guess. I can't wait for that fucker to retire.
He's just so pissed about the decision. It was almost as bad as sending Nasri off against Norwich.
Yeah, I guess, but we'll never stoop as low as banning papers for trying to sell copies.
KidA Seven
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Those look awful.
That really is the lowest of the low, isn't it? The lowest
They'll probably sell more copies if they do a piece explaining which papers they are. Plus all they have to do is wait for another paper to put the presser up and then just copy it.
It's immature and petty. But it's not the fucking heinous hate crime you're making it out to be.
Freewheelin'
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Dear lord, those kits are bad.
Really bad.
Really bad.
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